Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-11-10
High School Column.
ut. Hone. Wis.

AsAii iIN ONl. w. Wy AtCN. MI EiInoods
Mr.. w. +. Pease and Miss Jennie Belt
Ter, Of Melville. We wish them icy
through life.
Mr.. Amos Hazen IS under orders to
report at McGregor, Ia, 70 Z. S. Officials
for mr. increase Of pension.
Il the population Of Mt. Hope and
vicinity increase in the future as it has
in the past two months We viii soon
have quite a place. The latest arrival
is boy, a young blacksmith 1t Mr. Il.
Sheady's.
Mr.. W. A. Bishop shipped 4 number
Of chickens to Chicago last week
Strayed or stolen, hogs head b.
longing to Mr.. S. NJ. scobie.
Mrs i. Il. Anderson, Of Ollie. III, has
been in our midst visiting relatives for q
week.
The class in U. s. Constitution are at
work clectiug 4 president for the z $.
Think perhaps MI. farnsworth win BE
our next president.
10 make the subject Of Discount and
Bank Discount easy and plain, the High
Arithmetic class established wholesale
house, and bank last week, and are
now transaciing large business. More
practice with our theory Is what We
must have 10 produce more thorough
students. Success is more dependent
upon Practice than theory. Our school
il having much Of practical work this
year AMI We find pupils ARE more inter-
ested il their work, is consequence.
Miss Daley Linn took charge Of our
primary department one day hast week,
Miss Zimmerman having been called
ID Prairie dn Chen
Mrs. John harshburger was with Us
nj the rhetorical exercises last Friday;
also Miss Carrie McClusky, a former
student, and who has Just closed her
term Of school Afiss Carrie was very
successful III her work N teacher, ana
Is thorough, practical teacher, as wen
az model student, She takes charge
Of the same school again next tern.
The Freshman class are at work
making 4 collection Of beans for our
cabinet.
The faculty ana school feel their in-
dcbtness 70 Mrs. Jennie Aiillner, nee
Day, for box Of cotton pods AMI per-
simmons, which She 50 kindly sent Us
last week. Mrs. Millner was an ellici-
ent member u Tie faculty for three
successive years previous % hen mar
riage, and Wa are pleased TO note the
deep interest She still has for our school.
HABITS or STUDENTS, BY 4 Young sTC-
DENT
We I'LL have habits, and if any 81 You
have tried q break Yourself 81 some
habit, you know il i very hard.
Il i much easier 70 acquire habits
than to break yourself Of them, after
you have acquiel them,
We students are no exception to the
common rule.
| Il may he easier for us to solve diff
cult problems III arithmetic and algebra,
81 70 commit u memory tEc laws il
/ philosophy, or. to write compositions.
than It i for those ont Of school, Vet it
i just as hard for Ills to break ourselves
| Of habits as it Is for anyone 4lSa
We should AL have good habits, Of
course, and students especially, for that
i, il part, for what they 60 to school
We 20 % school u learn to be polite
and mannarly, along with other things,
and 70 be mannerly We must know
what good manners are, then after
knowing, We must Get III the habit Of
applying our knowledge to every day
life. After this habit il acquired ii is
comparatively easy to ~ polite and
mannerly.
| Then if il i easier q acquire d habit
than % break one MP. why are % many
..illmannercd'? rs It because they 10
not know what good manners are? Id
4 great many cases it Is, but i'll most
cases they know what good manners
are, yet for some reason, 10 not ar
ply their knowledge The reason Il
because It II hard To get out Of the
babit III ,,siaf- fha manners ,rt y,-ai.,